Pack Unleashed

For our fourth episode, we have an extra special guest in the form of Matt 'Mills' Miller, co-founder of global product studio Ustwo and our Pack Matt's old boss!
Matt and Mills talk about the often taboo subject of giving yourself 'permission to fail'.

Expect a gritty account from the front line of running an agency, the ups the downs and everything in-between.
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Matt ‘Mills’ Miller founded digital product design studio ustwo with John Sinclair in 2004.
In the 16 years since, ustwo expanded to include an independent games studio and ustwo adventure: a startup fund and incubator that supports early-stage startups and digital companies. The company’s driving ethos is to create meaningful products and services. Alongside designing products for the likes of Sky and Facebook, it developed Google DeepMind’s Streams app, which can be used to remotely monitor patients from hospitals, and created the phenomenally successful mobile and tablet game Monument Valley.
Mills stepped away from his operational duties at ustwo to head up adventure – which provides support, investment and a workspace for startups at its London studio – in 2017.

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Links from the show:

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• Ustwo studios:

https://www.ustwo.com/

• Mills Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/millsustwo/

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Find us here:
https://www.ridewiththepack.com/

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Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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Original music used in this podcast © Resting State by HOME:
https://home96.bandcamp.com/releases
Under the creative commons 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

To kick off season 2 of our podcast, we have a great guest and a white hot topic!

We’re joined by Laïla von Alvensleben, who heads up Culture & Collaboration at MURAL.

Laïla has a background in UX design and has worked as an industry expert and facilitated workshops for the likes of Hyper Island and Mural.

She’s now a remote workplace expert and contributes to a variety of programmes and businesses helping them navigate their remote challenges!

We talk about what it means to build a remote culture which is both inclusive but also gives people and teams autonomy to shine. We also touch on the one super power you need to thrive in a remote team right now.

Packed with practical advice and knowledge bombs aplenty, you do not want to miss this episode!

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Thanks to our sponsor:

https://plusx.space/

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Links from the show:

1. Remote work transformation is a full-time job (or, why you need a Head of Remote Work)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/remote-work-transformation-full-time-job-why-you-need-darren-murph

2. Online warmups and energisers from Mural:

https://www.mural.co/blog/online-warm-ups-energizers

3. Mural imagine

https://www.mural.co/imagine

4. Mural back stage pass

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDZa1OFNww6MrYctf8Z1y7xPWYsfu8O6j

5. Pack Articles

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/articles/

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Links to Laïla & Mural:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lailavon/

Twitter: @lailavona

Website: lailavon.com

MURAL:

Twitter: @mural

Website: mural.co
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Original music used in this podcast © Resting State by HOME:
https://home96.bandcamp.com/releases
Under the creative commons 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

For our sixth episode, we explore the case for when it’s time to stop thinking around your product ideas and time to put things into action. Design doing!

A lot of the time it can be easy to snuggle up in the 'comfort blanket' of endless research without committing to making anything other than documents full of theory.
We argue the point, that while design thinking is definitely valid, design doing is the way forward. Get out there earlier and test your ideas.

We discuss the Design Sprint, the ultimate hybrid of thinking and doing, and how Matt learnt the importance of getting practical while baking sourdough during lockdown.
You do not want to miss the knowledge bombs within.

Get this in your ears, pronto.
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Links from the show:

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• Malcolm Gladwell - Blink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink:_The_Power_of_Thinking_Without_Thinking

• Tim Brown - Change by design

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Change-Design-Transforms-Organizations-Innovation/dp/0061766089

• Ed Catmull - Creativity inc

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspiration/dp/0593070097

• Design sprints with Pack

https://www.ridewiththepack.com/design-sprints/

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Find us here:
https://www.ridewiththepack.com/

Get in touch with us here:

[email protected]

& please don’t forget to subscribe and spread the word.

Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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Original music used in this podcast © Resting State by HOME:
https://home96.bandcamp.com/releases
Under the creative commons 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

For our first episode we look back at our video series ‘The New Normal’, a conversation led look into how things have changed for a variety of people from different walks of life and professional backgrounds during lockdown, and what the future might look like once we’re out the other side

We discuss the insights we’ve learnt from those conversations, how John bagged a celebrity author of Sprint and Make Time (John Zeratsky!) for a chat, and why Dom thinks everyone should throw in the towel and fire up Tiger King on Netflix.

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Links from the show:

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• Check out all our 'New Normal' episodes here:

https://ridewiththepack.com/the-new-normal

• How to fail podcast Episode 68:

https://tinyurl.com/y8prlnow

• Tiger King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_King

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Find us here:
https://www.ridewiththepack.com/

Get in touch with us here:

[email protected]

& please don’t forget to subscribe and spread the word.

Peace.X

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Founders of Pack and UX and UI industry veterans, John, Matt and Dom are on a mission to help product teams design better digital products and services, fast!

Expect insights into digital product design, innovation, design thinking, design doing and productivity, interlaced with obscure 80’s film references, sourdough-baking tips from Matt and loads more mind-blowing stuff!

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Original music used in this podcast © Resting State by HOME:
https://home96.bandcamp.com/releases
Under the creative commons 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Better late than never, and worth the wait no doubt!
It's the end of season 2 episode, where we wrap up the season with a look back over our guests, what we've learnt and the great conversations we've had!
Join our hosts for this final episode John and Dom, who take you through what's been done, what's to come and their favourite moments from the movie Ghost, which John's only just got round to seeing!
Thanks for listening, see you for season 3 soonish...
Pack out!
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Thanks to our sponsor:

https://plusx.space

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Links from the show:
1. Business for designers - Ryan Rumsey
https://www.designbetter.co/business-thinking-for-designers
2. Tom prior - business for designers
https://www.designersinbusiness.com/

3. Product unleashed - Richard Banfield recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVXRFbrJsRk

4. Meet butter
https://meetbutter.io/

5. Just enough research book - Erika Hall
https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research

6. Duke Nukem article wired
https://www.wired.com/2009/12/fail-duke-nukem/

7. Marc Maron interview with David Fincher
https://www.moviemaker.com/david-fincher-marc-maron-wtf/

8. Mat Hunter - Plus X
https://twitter.com/mat_hunter?lang=en

9. Silicon Brighton
https://siliconbrighton.com/

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Original music used in this podcast © Resting State by HOME:
https://home96.bandcamp.com/releases
Under the creative commons 3.0 license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/